We have plently of repeat customers each year that disproves this theory. We were recently filmed by Anglia News dealing with a wasps nest and the householder is one of our regular customers and as he states on the film, he gets a new nest every year. I am not sure if the following link will work. http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2013-08-29/worried-about-wasps/ http://www.skwardpestcontrol.co.uk/
Were these our native wasps Matty or these Asiatic ones I heard about a few years back that invade bee colonies biting the heads of worker bees..... I try not to mind wasps too much, they have their place don't they? We had a nest in a hedge on the path to our house...I had it sprayed for about £25...then had terrible guilt cos the nest was really a rather beautiful creation..... Anyway, I call em wosps...my 3 year old she-cub calls them swobs....
Wasps are evil, hate them they sting you for no reason. Bees I like, they only sting you for good reason. I had a really fat fluffy bee land on my shoulder a few weeks back, he was just having a wash so I left him there while I carried on eating my bbq. He stayed there about 20 mins, it was quite odd but he was quite cute.
You maybe right , but it's worked for us . We get wasps in our garden , had one in the house tonight but no nests . I think the advice came on Gardeners Question time or some such programme.
Some wasps and hornets are protected, don't be killing them without knowing what it is first. "European hornets benefit from legal protection in some countries, notably Germany, where it has been illegal to kill a European hornet or nest since 1 January 1987, with a fine of up to 50,000 Euros."
To be honest it is probably more down to the insecticide used still being 'active' if the nest was treated at the end of the summer, and therefore detering them from making nests nearby. If you had a nest last year you were very unlucky as there were not many about, this year numbers were up but not a patch on two years ago when our guys were working seven days a week during the wasp season.
The nest was built over 2 maybe 3 years , I know this because of the progress of scars left on our fence panels and the occasional scraping sound heard during those summers . Popular theory says that nests are abandoned after one year.... not so in this instance. Regarding the insecticide , I too thought after watching the clips that the 'gas ' might disperse before complete extermination of the nest , thus allowing the colony's recovery. I used powder from B&Q and many years later, with the nest still there , no problems. The theory was tested and it worked .
